An Approach to Literature: A Collection of Prose and Verse with Analyses and DiscussionsCleanth Brooks, John Thibaut Purser, Robert Penn Warren F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 - 634 pages |
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Page 150
... idea opposed to the concept of prog- ress - that is , utopianism . This idea takes two forms . In the minds of some thinkers it is related to the past : there has been a golden age , in the " good old days of the fathers " or in some ...
... idea opposed to the concept of prog- ress - that is , utopianism . This idea takes two forms . In the minds of some thinkers it is related to the past : there has been a golden age , in the " good old days of the fathers " or in some ...
Page 161
... idea of a perfect spiritual condition , and pursue them , as we do pursue them , for their own sake and as ends in themselves , our worship of them becomes as mere wor- ship of machinery , as our worship of wealth or popula- tion , and ...
... idea of a perfect spiritual condition , and pursue them , as we do pursue them , for their own sake and as ends in themselves , our worship of them becomes as mere wor- ship of machinery , as our worship of wealth or popula- tion , and ...
Page 422
... idea . Now as we have seen , poetry , along with literature in general , differs from science in that it is interested , not in the communication of ideas merely , but of ideas and feelings about the ideas . The poet will be interested ...
... idea . Now as we have seen , poetry , along with literature in general , differs from science in that it is interested , not in the communication of ideas merely , but of ideas and feelings about the ideas . The poet will be interested ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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